Dr. Rowena McClinton is a distinguished scholar with a focus on Native American history, spirituality, and cultural interactions. Her extensive body of work includes both books and essays that explore the complex relationships between Indigenous communities and European settlers, particularly the Moravian missionaries and the Cherokee Nation.

Publications

Books:

• The John Howard Payne Papers of the Payne-Butrick Papers, vols. 7–14 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022), 3 vols.
• Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires, under U.S. Empires: “Indigenous and Settler Women Interact,” and Native Women in North America: “Quapaws: The Life and Works of Elder Ardina Moore and Quapaw History and Culture” (London: Alexander Street Press, 2016).
• The Abridgement to The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, 2 vols. 1805–1813 and 1814–1821 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010).
• The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, 2 vols. 1805–1813 and 1814–1821 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007).

Essays:

• “Cherokee and Christian Expressions of Spirituality through First Parents: Eve and Selu” in The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies, edited by Tim Garrison and Gregory O’Brien (University of Nebraska Press, 2017).
• “Converging Spiritualities: Observations of Anna Rosina Gambold, Moravian Missionary to the Cherokees, 1805 to 1821,” in the 2012 Yearbook of German-American Studies.
• “A Continuing Teaching Career: Life in Mississippi and Beyond,” in Adventures in the Academy: Professors in the Land of Lincoln and Beyond, forward by Paul Ferguson (SIUE: University of Arkansas Press, 2010).
• “The Moravian Missionaries of Bethlehem and Salem,” in Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America, edited by A.G. Roeber (University Park: Penn State Press, 2008).
• “Moravians and Cherokees at Early Nineteenth-Century Springplace Mission, Georgia,” Documentary Editing, 28 (Spring 2006).
• “Cherokee Slaveholding: James Vann’s Diamond Hill Plantation and African Bondage,” in Race, Roots, & Relations: Native and African Americans, edited by Terry Straus (Chicago: Albatross Press, 2005).
• “Early 19th-Century Cherokee and Moravian Spirituality Converges at Springplace, Georgia,” Annotations (NHPRC publication) vol.30 (March 2002).
• “Transcribing and Translating Early Nineteenth-Century Moravian Missionary Diaries,” Documentary Editing, 20 (June 1998).
• “Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Charles Hicks,” Journal of Cherokee Studies, 17 (Spring 1996).
• “To Ascertain the Mind and Circumstance of the Cherokee Nation,” in Journal of Appalachian Studies, vol.5 (Spring 1993).

Dr. McClinton’s scholarly contributions provide invaluable insights into the spiritual and cultural exchanges between Native American communities and European settlers, enriching the understanding of Indigenous histories and legacies.

Class Topics
Native American topics/courses on Lewis and Clark Encountering Indians, 1803-1806; Native American Women; Cherokee Spirituality, Settler Incursion on Native Lands, and Removal, Severalty, Indian New Deal, and Sovereignty, and Native American Resistance and Reforms.